Juliana Mayra is an American singer, songwriter and commercial airline pilot. 
 Born in Pernambuco, Brasil she spent most of her of childhood years in a small town outside Recife before moving to the United States with her mother in early 2000. Though it was in Brasil where Juliana’s love for music first sparked, it was in the U.S. where that spark grew into a passion as she discovered a whole new world of artists. She joined the school choir where she got a taste of performing as she played the main character during a year school performance “Once on this Island.” 
 After graduating high school, Juliana pursued her new interest of flight by enrolling in an aviation business program and earning multiple flight ratings and a bachelor’s degree. As a flight instructor after college, her songwriting career was launched as she began working with local artists to develop an original sound based on her varied life experiences. In between teaching flight classes, earning an MBA, and preparing for licensure as an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP), Juliana completed her first album titled “Light of My Shadow,” which was released in September 2016. She has since become a commercial airline pilot and is busy at work on a new playlist of original songs.